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The Japanese Teahouse

The Japanese Teahouse

Fehrer, Wolfgang

Hardcover

General ArchitectureRegional Architecture

Publisher Price: $69.95

ISBN10: 3721209974
ISBN13: 9783721209976
Publisher: Niggli Verlag
Published: Mar 17 2020
Pages: 232
Weight: 3.45
Height: 1.20 Width: 8.90 Depth: 12.20
Language: English
Japanese culture and architecture have always fascinated the Western world. One particular, architecturally complex building type at the intersection of multiple currents of Japanese philosophy, art and esthetics is the Japanese teahouse. It is a very private place of meditation, a place where only those may enter who have been invited, in which the host communicates with his or her guests through the medium of tea in the context of the strictly regimented ceremony. This volume expands the reader's knowledge of the built space that makes this tea ceremony possible. The author explores the philosophical background as well as the stylistic and spatial principles. He takes the reader on a cultural-historical and architectural journey through time, from the beginnings in the 15th century, when the art of the tea ceremony as well as the space in which it took place were recorded for the first time to the present day, when the design and construction of a teahouse is still perceived in Japan as a great challenge for designers and architects.

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